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No. UU.) AN ACT (S. 127. 

To ireatc a Text Book Coinniission, and to pro- 
cure for use ill the public free schools in this 
State a uniform series of text books; to de- 
line the duties and jwAvers of said commis- 
sion and other officers; to make an appro- 
priation for the carrying: into effect this act, 
and to provide punishment and penalties for 
the violation of the same. 

Section 1. — Be it enacted by the legislature of 
Alabama : That the governor, State superintend- 
ent of education, and three eminent teachers of 
the State, Avho shall have a practical knowledge 
of the public school system of the State and the 
nu'thods of teaching therein, to be appointed by 
the governor, shall be and hereby constituted the 
School Book Commission of the State of Ala- 
])ama, whose duty it is to select and adopt a uni- 
form series or system of text books for use in the 
pul)lic schools in this State. Said commission is 
hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to se- 
lect and adopt a uniform system or series of text 
books for use in the public schools in this State 
as al.)ove indicated, and when so selected and 
adopted the said text books shall be used for a 
l)eriod of five years in all the public schools of 
this State, and it shall not be lawful for any 
school officer, director, or teacher to use any 
other books upon the same branches other than 
those adopted by said Stiite Text Book Commis- 
sion. Said uniform series .shall include the fol- 
lowing branches of study, to-wit: Orthography, 
reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, gram- 
niar. language lessons, history of Alabama, con- 
taining the constitution of the State, history of 
the TTnited States, containing the constitu- 
tion of the TTnited States, physiology and hy- 
giene, elementary geology of Alabama, elemen- 



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tary principles of a«j;Ticiilture, elements of alge- 
bra, elements of plane oeometry, elements of nat- 
ural philosoplsy, bookeeping, elements of civil 
government, rJietoric, and higher English, and 
snch other branches of study as said commission 
may select and designate; Provided, that none of 
said to^xt liooks shall contain anything of a par- 
tisan or sectarian character. Before transacting 
any business relating to tlie duties af this com- 
mission they shall each take an oath before some 
person authorized to administer oatlis, to faith- 
fully discharge all tlie duties imposed upon them 
as meml)ers of said school book commission, 
and that they have no interest, direct or indirect," 
in any cf>ntract that may he nmde under this act, 
and will receive no personal benefit therefrom. 

Provided, further, that for cities and towns hav- 
ing a population of 5,000 or more, said commis- 
sion may select and designate such books and 
such branches of studv as the conditions existing 
in such cities and towns may require. 

Section 2. — There -shall be a sub-commission of 
five to be selected as follows; A president or 
n.uMuber of the faculty of one of the normal 
scliools of the State; a president or mend)er of 
tlie faculty of one of the agricultural schools; a 
superintendent of one of the city schools; and two 
teachers of the common schools, each one of whom 
shall l>e apointed by the governor. 

Section 3. — It shall be the duty of said sub-com- 
mission to report to tlie c(unmission at such time 
said commission shall direct, the books which 
the}'^ reco)nmend for adoption arranging each 
book in its class or division, and reporting them 
in the order of their merit, pointing out the mer- 
it and d«'nierit,-; of each ]M>ok, and indicating what 
book th(\v recommend for adoption first ; wliat 
liools' is their second choice; what their third 
• Iioice, and so on, juirsuing this plan Avith the 
lM)oks submitted upon each branch of study, and 
if said sub-commission shall consider such books 



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^ upon tlu' saiiio subject, or of the sanie class or (ii- 

^ vision of apiJi'oxiniately equal merit, all things 
r heiuii" (Miuallv (-((nsideved, they shall m report, 

"S and if they consider any of the books offered are 

^ of such class as to make them inferior and not 

l^ worthy of adoption, they shall in their report 
T^ so desio-nate such books and in said report they 
* shall make such recomnuMidation and sniii-estioiis 

to the commission as they shall deem advisable 
and proi>er to make. Said report shall be kept se- 
cret and sealed up and delivered to the secre- 
tary of the commission and said report shall not 
Ik' o]>ened by any member of the commission un- 
til the commission shall meet in executive ses- 
sion to open and consider the bids or proposals 
of publishers or others, desirins? to have books 
adopted by t^aid commission. Each member of 
said sub-commission before entering- upon the dis- 
charge of his duties, shall take and subscribe an 
oath to honestly, conscientiously, faithfully, and 
to tlie best of liis ability discharge said duties, 
and that he is not directly or indirectly in any 
manner interested in the proposed contract, nor 
in any books or publishing concern publishing 
any lM)oks of the kind or character contemplated 
for use in the public schools of this or any other 
State, and that he will examine all Iwoks sub- 
mitted carefully and faithfully and make true 
. rei)ort ther(H)n, as herein directed and prescribed, 
said oath sliall 1m' filed in the office of said secre- 
tary of State. 

SixTiox 4. — Said text book commission shall 
luTein consider said n^^ort in its selection and 
adoittion of the uniform senes of text books, and 
shall also themselves consider the merits of each 
book, taking into consideration their subject- 
matter, the printing, binding, material and me- 
chanical qualities, and their general suitability 
and (1csra])ility for lhepur]>oses intended as well 
as Ihe ])rice of said Inioks, and Ihey shall give 
great consideration and weight to the report and 



rccoiiinieiKlation of said sub-coiiimissioii ; Provid- 
ed, Tliat no text book, the siibjeet-iuatter of wliich 
is of inferior quality, shall be adopted by the text 
book commission. Said commission shall select 
and adopt such books as will, in their best judg- 
ment, accomplish tlie ends desired, and they are 
herel>Y authorized and directed, in case any book 
or books are deemed by them suitable for adop- 
tion and more desirable than other books of the 
same class submitted, and they further consider 
the price at which books are offered to be un- 
reasonably higli and that they should be offered 
at a smaller price, to immediately notify the pub- 
lisher or offerer of such book or books of their de- 
cision and request such reduction in price as 
they deem reasonable and just, and if they and 
such publisher shall a^ree on, a price they may 
adopt his book or books, but if not they shall use 
their OAvn sound judp;nient and discretion wheth- 
er they will adopt that, or the books which are 
deemed by them next best in the list submitted 
and when said text book commission shall have 
finished with the report of said sub-commission, 
the said report shall l>e filed and preserved in the 
office of the State superintendent of education, 
and shall be open at all times for public inspec- 
tion. 

Section 5. — Be it further enacted: That said 
text l>ook commission shall immediately after the 
passag'c of this act, meet and orji'anize, the g-over- 
nor beins: president of the commission and the 
superintendent of education secretary and exec- 
utive ofiPcer of said commission. As soon as 
Dracticable not later than thirty days after 
its oro-anization, the commission shall ad- 
vertise, in such manner and for such lenijth 
of time and at such places as may be 
deemed advisable; that at a time and place 
fixed definit(dv in said advertisement, sealed bids 
or yu'oposals will be received from the publishers 
of school text books for furnishina^ books to the 
public schools in the State of Alabama, through' 
agencies established by said publishers in the sev- 



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rval coimtios, and places in counties, in the 
iState, as may he provich'd for in such re^ulalions 
as said commission may ado])t and jU'escrihe. 
The bids or proposals to be for furnishing the 
books for a period of live years and no longer, 
and that no bid for a longer period will be con- 
sidered, said bid shall state specitically and deli- 
nitely the i)rice at which the books will be fur- 
nished, and shall be accompanied by one or 
more specimen copies of each and every book pro- 
posed to be furnished and it shall be recpiired of 
each bidder to deposit with the treasurer of the 
State a sum of money such as the commission 
may require, not less than five hundred dollars, 
nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars, 
according to the number of books each bidder 
may propose to suitply, and notice shall fur- 
ther Ik' given in said advertisement that such de- 
l)osits shall be forfeited absolutely to the State if 
the bidder nmking the deposit, shall fail or refuse 
to make and execute such contract and bond as is 
hereinafter re(pTired, within such time as th • 
commission may require, which time shall alf^o 
be stated in said advertisement. All bids shall 
]m» sealed and dcqiosited with the secretary of 
State, to be by him delivered to the commission 
when they are in executive session, for the pur- 
pose of consi<leriug the same, when they shall be 
ojicned in the jivesence of the commission. 

SiocTiox (i. — Be it further enacted : That it shall 
be the duty of the said text lH)ok commission to 
meet at the time and place designated in such no- 
tice or advertisement and take out the sample or 
specimen copies submitted, upon which the bids 
are based and ivfer and submit these 1o the sub- 
commission as provided for and directed in pre- 
vi(ms section of this act, with instructions to 
said sub-commission to re])ort back to them at 
a time s])ecifi(Ml, with their rep<>rt, classification 
and recommendation as }>rovided in previous sim-- 
tion of this act. AMieji the sjiid rejxirt is sub- 
mittefl it shall ho the dutv of tlie said text book 



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coiimiission to meet iu executive session to open 
aud examine all sealed proiposals submitted and 
received in pursuance of the notice or advertise- 
ment provided for in section 2 of this act. It 
shall then be the duty of said commission to ex- 
amine and consider carefully all such bids or pro- 
posals, together AA'ith the report and recommenda- 
tion of the sub-commission and determine in the 
-manner provided in section 1 of this act what 
book or books shall be selected for adoption, tak- 
ing into consideration the size, quality as to sub- 
ject nmtter, material, printing, binding, and the 
mechanical execution and price, and the general 
suitability for the purpose desired and intended; 
Provided, however. That all books selected or 
adopted shall be written or printed in English. 
After their selection for adoption shall have been 
made, the said commission shall, by registered let- 
ter, notify the publishers, or proposers, to whom 
the contracts have been awarded, and it shall be 
the duty of the attorney general of the State to 
I)repare the said contract or contracts in ac- 
cordance with the terms and provisions of this 
act, and the said contract shall be executed by 
the governor and secretary of State, with the seal 
of the State attached upon the part of the State of 
Alabanm, and the said contract shall be executed 
triplicate, one copy to be kept by the contractor, 
one copy by the secretary of the text book com- 
mission, and copied in full in the minute book 
of said commission, and one copy to be filed in 
the office of the secretarj- of State, at the time of 
the execution of the contract aforesaid the con- 
tractors shall enter into a bond in the sum of 
not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than 
thirty thousand dollars, payable to the State of 
Alabama the amount of said bond within said 
limits, to be fixed by said commission, condi- 
tioned for the faithful, honest and exact perform- 
ance of his contract, and shall further provide 
for the payment of reasonable attorney's fees in 



caso of recovery in any suit niton the same, willi 
three or more good and solvent snreties, aetnal 
eitizens and residents oi:' tlie State of Alahama, 
or any i^narantee company anthorized to do busi- 
ness in tlie State of Ahihama may become the 
surety on the said bond, and it shall be the dniy 
of the attornej'^ general to i)repare said bond and 
apj)rove the same; Provided, liowever, That said 
])ond shall not be exhausted by a single recov- 
ery, but may be sued on from time to tune, until 
the full anumnt thereof shall be recovered, and 
the said commission may at auj time, by giving 
thirty days' notice, refpiire additional security or 
additional bond within the limits prescribed. 
And when anj- person, firm, or corporation shall 
have been awarded a contract and submitted 
therewith, the bond as required hereunder the 
commissi((n, througli its secretary shall so in- 
form the treasurer of the State, and it shall then 
be the duty of the treasurer to return to such 
contractor tlie cash deyjosit made by him, and 
the said commission, thrcmgh its secretary shall 
inform the treasurer of the names of the unsuc- 
cessful bidders or proposers, and the treasurer 
shall upon receipt of this notice return to them 
the anumnt dep(;sited in cash h\ them at the time 
of the sulnnission of their bid, but should any ])er- 
son, firm, companyor corporation fail ov refuse to 
execute the contract, and submit therewith his 
bond as required by this act within thirty days of 
the awarding of the contract to liim and the mail- 
ing of the registered letter containing tlu^ notice, 
provided the mailing of the registered letter shall 
l>e sufficient evidence that the notice was giv( n 
and rer-eived, the said cash de])osit will b ' deemed, 
and is here]>y, declaref] forfeited to the State of 
Alabama, and it shall be the duty of the treiisni'er 
to place said cash deposit in the treasury of the 
State to the credit of the general school fund, and 
provided, further, that any recovei-y liad on any 
bond, given by any contrnctoi', shall ennre to the 



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benefit of the said fuud of the State, and when 
collected shall be placed in the treasury to the 
credit of the said fund and be prorated among the 
several counties of the State. 

Section T. — Be it further enacted : That the 
books furnished under any contract shall at all 
times during the existence of the contract be equal 
to, in all respects, the specimens or sample copies 
furnished with bids; and it shall be the duty of 
I be secretary of State to carefully preserve in his 
office as the standard of quality and excellence to 
be maintained in such books during the continu- 
ance of such contracts the specimen or sample 
copies of all books which have been the basis of 
any contract, together with the original bid or 
proposal and the contractor shall, also furnish 
each county superintendent of education like 
specimen or sample copies which shall be pre- 
served by him in like manner and the same shall 
always be open to' inspection of the public. It 
shall be the duty of all contractors to print plainly 
on the back of each book the contract price, as 
well as the exchange price at which it is agreed 
to be furnished, but the books submitted as sam- 
ples or specimen copies with the original bids 
shall not have the price printed on them before 
they are submitted to the sub-commission. And 
the said text book commission shall not in any 
case, contract with any person or publisher for 
the use of any books which are to be sold to pat- 
rons for use in any public school in this State, 
at a price above or in excess of the price at which 
such book or books are furnished by said person 
or publisher under contract to any State, county, 
or school district in the United States, under like 
conditions prevailing in this State and under this 
act. And it shall be stipulated in each contract 
that the contractor has never furnished and is 
not now furnishing under contract an}' State, 
county or' school district in the United States, 
where like conditions prevail as are prevailing in 





tills tSlatc and iiiulci' this act the saiue IkjoLc or 
books as are euibrai-ed iu said contract at a price 
beiow or less thau the price stipiihited in the said 
contract and the said commission is hereby au- 
tliorized and directed, at any time tliey may iind 
tliat ajiy boolc has been iiirnislied at a h)\vei' price 
under contract to any State, county, or school dis- 
trict aforesaid to sue ui)ou the bond of said con- 
tract and recover the difference between the con- 
tract price and the lower price at which they 
tind the book or books have been sold, 
and iu case a contractor shall fail to exe- 
cute siKicilically the terms and provisions 
of his contract said commission is hereby 
authorized, empowered and directed to bring suit 
upon the bond of such contractor for the recovery 
of all damages, the suit to be iu the name of the 
State of Alabama and the recovery for the bene- 
llt of the public school fund, but nothing in this 
act shall be construed so as to prevent said com- 
mission and an}- contractor, agreeing thereto, 
from in auy manner changing or altering any 
contract, i)rovided tliat a majority of the commis- 
sion shall agree to the cliange and think it ad- 
visable and for the best interest of the public 
schools of this State. In all matters a nmjority 
of said commission shall control. 

Section S. — Be it further enacted : That it shall 
be always a part of the terms and condition of 
every contract made in pursuance of this act that 
the State of Alabama shall not be liable to any 
contractor, in any manner for any sum whatever, 
but all such contractors shall receive their pay 
or consideration in compensations solely and ex- 
clusively derived from the proceeds of the sale 
of books, as provided for in this act, Pro- 
vided, further, That the commission shall stipu- 
late in the contract for I lie supplying of any 
book as herein provided Ihat tlu^ c()ntractor or 
contractors shall lake uj) the school lyooks now in 
use in this State and receive Ihe same in ex- 
change for new books at a price not less than 50 



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p<T cent, of the contract price. Provided, Such ex- 
chanii'e period shall not continue longer than 
one year from the date of the contract. And each 
person or publisher niaking a hid for the supply- 
ing of any book or books under this act, shall slate 
in" such bid or proposal the exchange price at 
wliich such l)Ook or books will be furnished. 

Si'^CTioN 0.— Be it further enacted : That the text 
book coniniission shall have and reserve the right 
to reject any and all bi<ls or proposals if they shall 
be of the opinion that any or all should for any 
rejison be rejected. And in case they fail from 
among the bids or proposals to select or adopt 
any book or books upon any of the branches men- 
tioned in previous section of this act, they 
may re-advertise for sealed bids or proposals un- 
der the same terms and conditions as before and 
proceed in their investigation in all respects as 
they did in the tirst instance, and as required by 
the terms and provisions in this act, or they may 
advertise for sealed bids or proposals from au- 
thors or publishers of text books who have manu- 
scripts of books not yet published, for prices at 
which they will publish and furnish in book form 
such manuscripts or for prices at which they will 
sell such manuscripts, together with the copy- 
right with such books for use in the public schools 
in Alabama, proceeding, in all respects in like 
manner as before; and provided, that before ac- 
cepting' or rejecting any manuscript, it shall be 
their duty to take the manuscript and to adver- 
tise for sealed bids or proposals for publishing 
the same in book form, in like manner as herein- 
before provided for, and under the same restric- 
tion and condition, and the contract may be let 
for the publication of all such books or for any 
one or more separately; and provided, further, 
that the State itself shall not, under any circum- 
stances, enter into any contract binding it to pay 
for the pu])lication of anv book or books, but in 



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tlio ('(nilrncl with llic owiici* dl" Uic inainiscript 
it shall be provided that he shall pav the cohiik'h- 
satioii to tlu' piihlishcr (or the publicatiou aud 
puttiiij^- ill book form tiic inaiiuscript, together 
with tlie cost and expense of eopyrii;htin<i- the 
same; And provided, further, that in all eases 
bids or proposals sail be aeeompanied witii the 
eash deposit of from five hundred to twenty-live 
hundred dollars as the eommission may di- 
reet, and as previously provided 1u this act. 
And it is further expressy provided that any per- 
son, firm, or corporation now doin<;- busi- 
ness, or iiroposinji,- to do Imsiuess, in the State 
of Alabama, shall have the right to hid for 
the contract to be awarded under this act 
in manner as follows : In response to the adver- 
tisement Avhen made as hereinbefore provided, 
Siiid person, firm, or corjwration may submit in 
writing bid or bids to edit or have edited, publish 
and supply for use in the public schools in this 
State, any book or books herein provided for, pro- 
vided that instead of filing said bid or proposal 
a sample or s]MM-im(Mi c<)])y of each book pro])osed 
to be furnished, he nmy <'xhibit to the commission 
a maiiuscrii)t or printed form the matter ])r()- 
1K)S(h1 to 1k^ incorjiorated in any book, together 
with such a description and illustration of the 
form and style thereof, as would be fully intel- 
ligible and satisfactory to said commission, or 
they may submit a book or Ivooks the equal of 
\\hich in every way they ju'opose to furnish and 
they shall accompany their bid or pro])osal with 
the cash deposit and execute contract and bond 
as hereinbefore provided. 

Skctiox 10.— Be it further enacted: That as 
soon as said commission shall have entered into a 
conli'act oi- contracts for the furnishing or su])]>ly- 
ing of books for use in the public schools in tliis 
State it shall be tln' duty of the governor to issue 
his proclamation announcing such facts to the 
])eo])le of the State. 

Section 11. — Be it furiher enac(e«l: That (he 



part}" or parties with whom the contract shall b<^ 
made shall establish aud maiutaiu two or more 
depositories in this State, to be desig'nated by the 
commission, wliere a stock or snppl}' of the books 
sufficient to meet all the immediate demands shall 
be kept. There shall also be maintained in each 
county in the State not less than three agencies, 
for the distribution of the books to the patrons, 
to be located and designated by the commission 
and the contractor shall be permittt^d to make ar- 
rangements with a merchant or other person for 
the handling and distribution of the books. All 
books shall be sold to the consumer at the retail 
contract price, and in each book shall be i^rinted 
the following : ( The price fixed hereon is fixed by 
State contract and deviations therefrom shall be 
reported to your county superintendent of educa- 
♦ tiou, or to the State superintendent at Montgom- 
ery. ) Aud it is expressly provided that should 
any party contracting to furnish books as pro- 
vided for in this act, fail to furnish them or oth- 
erwise breach his contract, in addition to the 
right to the State to sue on the bond hereinabove 
re(iuired the county suj^erintendent of any cimnt}' 
may sue in the name of the State of Alabama, 
in any court of competent jurisdiction in the 
county in which he resides; for the use and bene- 
fit of the school fund^ of the county; Provide<l 
That the right of action to the county superin- 
tendent shall be limited to breaches of the con- 
tract committed in the county of his residence, 
and provided, further, that in all cases under this 
act service of process may be had and deemed 
sufficient on any agent of the contractor in this 
State. 

Section 12. — Be it furtlier enacted : That said 
commission may from time to time make any nec- 
essary regulation not contrary to the provisions 
of this act, to secure the jM'ompt distribution of 
the books herein provided for and the prompt and 



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faithful cxccntioii of all contracts, and it is ex- 
l)]('ssly now provided that said coniniission shall 
maintain its organization during; the live years 
of the continnance of the contract and after tin 
expiration of the same to renew such of them as 
tlu\v deem advisable, or re-advertise for new 
bids or projjosals as reipiired by this act in the 
first instance, and enter into such other contracts 
as they deem for the best interest of the patrons 
and children of the public schools of this State; 
Provided, That any contract entered into oi- re- 
newed shall be for the term of live years. 

Section 13. — Be it furtlier enacted: That as 
soon as'practicabe after the adoption provided for 
in this act, the State .superintetident of education 
shall issue a circular letter to each c(mnty su])er- 
intendent of education and each teacher in th.e 
State, and to such others as he may desire to send 
it, which letter shall contain the list of book*? 
adopted, Uw prices, location of aiiencies, and 
manner of distribution and such other informa- 
tion asi he nuit deem necessary. 

Section 14. — Be it further enacted : That as 
soon after the passage of this act as may be prac- 
ticable and the commission may deem advisable, 
the lx)oks adopted as a uniform system of text 
books shall l>e introduced and used as text liooks 
to the exclusion of all others in all the public free 
schools in this State; Provided, That nothinf;: 
herein shal be construed to prevent the use of sup- 
plementarv books such as may Ix^ prescrll>ed and 
selected by the text book commission but such 
sui)])len!entary lM)oks shall not be used to the ex- 
clusion of the books ]»resci'ibe(l ot' ado])ted under 
the provisions of this act; Provided further, that 
nothinji; in this act shall be construed to prohibit 
the use in ])ub1ic schools of any text book ui)on 
any branch mentioned in any ]>revious section of 
the act, whei-e the commission shall select or 
adopt a book f(»r that branch or snbjecl ; Pi-ovid- 



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ed, fiu'tlier, That iiotliiii!;- in this act shall pre- 
vent the teaching in any scliool any branch high- 
er or more advanced than is embraced in any pre- 
vious section of this act, nor the using of an}' 
book upon sucli higher branch of study, provided 
that such higlier branches shall not be taught to 
the exclusion of the branches mentioned and set 
out in this act. 

Section 15. — Be it further enacted: That noth- 
ing herein shall be construed to prevent or pro- 
liilut the patrons of the xvubiic schools througliout 
the State from procuring Iiooks in the usual way 
in case no contract shall be nmde or the contractor 
fails or refuses to furnish the books provided for 
in this act, at tlie time re(piii-ed for their use at 
the resi>ective schools. 

Section 10. — Be it further enacted : That any 
person or teacher violating the' provisions of this 
act, sliall become guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
upon c(mviction be x^unished by a fine of not less 
than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 

Section 17. — Be it further enacted: That any 
teaclier who shall use or periiiit to be lised in his 
or her school any text book upon the branches 
end>raced in this act, where the commission has 
adopted a book upon that branch other than the 
one so adopted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction punished as provided for 
in section 16 of this act. 

Section 18. — Be it further enacted : That if any 
local agent, dealer, clerk or other person handling 
or selling the books adopted under this act, shall 
d^^mand or receive for any copy of any of the 
books Iterein provided for, more than the contract 
price, in cases where the purchase is for cash, he 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
viction siiall for each off(Mise be punished l)y fine 
of uot less than fifty nor more than five hundred 
dollars. 



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Section 1<).— He it funlici- tMiaclcd : Tlial Hie 
.Slim of two Ihousaiid doljirs or so luiieh thereof as 
may Ih' iieeessary to be paid out of tlie moneys i;^ 
the treasury not otlierwise exiXMided be and is 
h(^reby a])])roi)riated for the i)iiri)ose of payinii- 
(lie cost and ex])eiise of earrying iuto el'fett the 
IM'ovisions of this act. 

fc>ECTi()X 20.— Be it further enacttnl : Tliat the 
g-overnor and supt^-intendent of education slijill 
serve on tlie commission Avitliout com])ensation 
and the other members of tlie commission and the 
sub-commission shall be paid the sum of four dal- 
lars per day during the time they are actually en- 
gaged, not to exceed thirty days, and in addition 
shall receive ten cents per mile for each mile trav- 
eled from their home to their place of meeting and 
return thereto, to Ix- paid out of the general fund, 
and they shall each make and sw<vU' to a state- 
ment of the nun)ber of miles trinvled and the 
Jiumbin- of days actually engaged. 

Section 21.— Be it further enacted: That the 
said sub-commission is authorized to ap|X)int a 
clerk A\-lio shall have three dollars ])er diem dur- 
ing the time he is actually engaged not to exceed 
thirty da.^'s, and the same mileage as is allowed 
the sub-commission. 

Section 22.— Be it further enacted: That the 
adoption made as provided for in this act shall 
eontinue for five years from the date of such adop- 
tion; Provided, The provisions of this act shall 
not apply to those counti(^s that have ado]>ted a 
unifoni! system of text books for their public 
schools and have contracted for a supply of such 
tox\ books, until the expiration of said contracts 
respectively unless they see fit sooner to accept 
the provisions of this act. and provided furthiM- 
that no new contract shall !>;> made after the 
pas-sage of this act by any county lK)ard of edu- 
eation, or by the board of education of anv citv 
or town in this State. 



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Section 23. — Be it fiirthor onacted: That in 
case of the failure of any coutractor to fiiriiiHli 
the books as proidded in liis contract, then his 
bond sliall be declared forfeited, and the State 
sdiool book commission is authorized and em- 
powered to make such other contract for the un- 
expired term with any })erson to provide such 
books as they may deem advisable for the best in- 
terests of the State. 

>S'e('TI()x 24. — Be it furtlier (^nacted: Tliat tliis 
act ^-liall take effect from and after its passage. 

Approved March 4, 1903. 



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